How to Handle .WIM Image Files

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I have an Asus netbook, and its recovery partition and recovery DVD have several images in .WIM format.

Are there any Linux/Ubuntu tools to handle those images? Im looking for the equivalents of dism, ImageX, etc. But any tool (GUI or CLI) that could mount or extract or view its contents would be nice.

Best Answer

Gathering @fossfreedom 's and @Rinzwind 's ideas about 7z and Archive Manager, and tweaking with some of my own, I guess ive found a nice solution:

Archive Manager (actually File Roller) supports 7z (as long as p7zip package is installed), and 7z supports WIM (thanks guys!). But here is the catch: File Roller does not know that 7z supports WIM. So the trick consists in "fooling" File Roller to think WIM files are actually 7z. Sure, renaming (or appending) WIM filenames with ".7z" extension works. But it can be more elegant than that.

Ive downloaded and and examined File Roller's source code, and found out that it (thankfully) detects files by mime types, not filenames.

So the complete solution could be:

Make sure you have p7zip package installed. You can install it with the following command:
```
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
```
For Mime-Type dababase editing, install assoGiate (File Types Editor). Its a very easy, intuitve, well-polished tool. A must-have for mime-type editing. Saved me more than once, including now
To install it in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), use the following command:
```
sudo apt-get install assogiate
```
To install it in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty), you need to install libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-1c2a manually at Launchpad. In "Published versions", click on the release of your architecture. In the next page, download the *.deb file in "Downloadable files". We need to install libxml++2.6-2 available in Universe repo too, so we can install assoGiate using dpkg:
```
sudo dpkg -i libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-1c2a_2.26.0-1build1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxml++2.6-2
sudo dpkg -i assogiate_0.2.1-3_amd64.deb
```
Open it in Menu > System Tools > File Type Editor
At it, go to Type > Find (CTRL+F, or search icon), type "7z".

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Select x-7z-compressed, go to Type > Edit
Go to Filenames tab, click on Add button
Type *.wim, click Add

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Close all dialogs, and presto!
Nautilus now show the WIM archives as a 7-zip archive. Which, given that is 7-zip that handles them, it is not entirely false. No renaming needed, filenames are intact.

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